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Copenhagen, on Two Wheels: Street Style From the Fashion Week With Rules
Copenhagen Fashion Week is small, fast and unusually strict. Its spring/summer 2027 edition, held August 3 to 7, 2026, presented 34 shows and presentations over four days of runway programming, according to the organizers, and marked the week’s 20th anniversary. It also requires brands applying for its official schedule to document how they meet a…
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Johannesburg, Dressed: Knitwear, Shweshwe and a City of Runways
Johannesburg is a city that likes to be seen. Its fashion calendar runs from the polished business of South African Fashion Week to the community energy of Soweto Fashion Week, and its designers now show in Paris and sell in New York. To understand how the city dresses, start with its runways, then look at…
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Parisian Ease, in Practice: The Stripe, the Flat and the Art of the Uniform
“Effortless” is the word most often attached to Parisian style, and it is a little misleading. The pieces that define the look have specific, documented origins. Most of them started as uniforms or working clothes. What Paris did was refine them, repeat them and wear them with confidence until they became classics. Here are three…
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Paris, Spring 2027: Balloon Trousers, Prada Purple and the Discipline of Less
Paris is the last stop of fashion month, and by the time the shows arrive, the people outside them have seen everything New York, London and Milan had to offer. The spring 2027 womenswear season ran from September 28 to October 6, 2026, according to the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode,…
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Fifth and 57th: Bill Cunningham and the Invention of New York Street Style
If you have ever stopped a stranger on the sidewalk to ask where they got their coat, you have done what Bill Cunningham did for nearly four decades. The difference is that he photographed the answer, and The New York Times published it. Cunningham, who died in June 2016 at 87, spent nearly 40 years…
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Uptowns to Lafayette Street: How New York Wrote the Rules of Sneaker Style
Every city has a shoe. In New York, it has always been the sneaker, and the city did not just wear them. It named them, rapped about them, customized them and built stores around them. In 2015, the Brooklyn Museum hosted The Rise of Sneaker Culture, a touring exhibition organized by the American Federation of…
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The New York Layer: How to Dress for the City’s Cold Months, by the Numbers
Ask a New Yorker about winter and you will rarely hear about the cold alone. You will hear about the walk from the subway to the office, the wind that funnels down the avenues, the train car that feels like July, and the slush that waits at every corner. Dressing well here is less about…
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Outside the Shows: What New York Wore to Fashion Week, Spring 2027
Every September, New York Fashion Week puts two shows on at once. One happens inside, on the official calendar. The other happens on the sidewalk, where editors, buyers, models, stylists and locals turn the walk between venues into a runway of their own. For the spring 2027 season, the official schedule ran from Thursday, September…
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Lagos Style: Color, Craft and a City That Dresses Without Apology
Lagos does not dress quietly. Nigeria’s largest city is known around the world for its music and film, and, as Vogue put it in a 2025 feature marking 15 years of Lagos Fashion Week, for a formidable style culture that is less widely acknowledged. The streets, the parties and the lines outside the shows are…
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La Sape: A Century of Congolese Elegance, from Brazzaville to Paris
Long before street style had a name, the dandies of Brazzaville and Kinshasa were turning dress into art and argument. A short history of la sape.
